Cotswold Book Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Shop. 3 related planning applications.

Cotswold Book Shop

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1960
Type
Shop
Address
Cotswold Book Shop, the Square, Stow-On-The-Wold, GL54 1AB
OS grid reference
SP 191 257
Coordinates
51.93017, -1.72321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cotswold Book Shop is a late 17th-century building, dated 1697. It is constructed of coursed squared rubble with chamfered quoins and has a Cotswold stone roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic. A modern shopfront occupies the front. On the first floor is one two-light stone mullion and transom casement with a rusticated surround, and one 19th-century paired casement with a central mullion and keyed heads. The steeply pitched roof has a moulded stone verge and kneelers, along with three gabled dormers. A rear wing has a higher roof line. The south-facing return has a rusticated cross-mullion window, similar to the one on the first floor front, and part of another in the gable. A datestone above the first-floor window on the right-hand side is inscribed “16 97”.

Local climate

Cotswold Book Shop receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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